suomeksi CLUB KASETTIASEMA 2006
At Kerubin Kuppila 14th to 16th July
Ilosaarirock's sweaty and singular sapphire, Club Kasettiasema, is ready to entertain the choicest audiences again, now for the third year in a row. Kerubin Kuppila is the place where tender troubadouring, irresistible industrial noise, raw rock'n'roll and general genius meet, join forces and then attack the unsuspecting festival goer.
In addition to the chummy choice of bands and artists, there will be dangerous DJing by such turntable tricksters as Deejii Karate, DJ Vuosisadan Bileet, DJ Tolppa Tolonen and DJ Coco El Macd. Even the tickets are cheap as candy! Spells P-A-R-T-Y!
Friday 14th July
Ville Härkönen plays JAAKKO TEPPO
Ville Härkönen, of Maryland and Ville Härkönen & Velvet fame, is not
afraid of challenges. The man with a magnificent voice fearlessly seizes even
the most demanding song material, like the ones written by Jaakko Teppo, a
legendary interpreter of the soulscape of the Eastern Finnish man. Even if the
songs at the first look may seem humorous, under the surface they are heartfelt
accounts of the raw truth of human life.
Are you ready to answer the calling of Jaakko Teppo? Are you ready to meet the blinding lightness and deepest darkness of the human soul? Think closely now, since the songs of Jaakko Teppo are maps for a journey with no turning back.
SYNTETISAATTORI ALANKO
Do you remember Neil Young and his experiments with electric music back in the 80s? His Madonna-style headset, the vocoder voice and the green blazer? Many people have tried to forget it all, but, lucky us, now Syntetisaattori Alanko is here to remind us again of that golden era. The massive one-man band rearranges the hits from various well-known artists in a synthetic, electronic form.
The resulting tunes could best be described as arresting dance music. While your body wants to join the irresistible rhythms, your brain wants to stop and listen, fervently desiring to analyse the luxuriously layered compositions. Syntetisaattori Alanko at Club Kasettiasema — where the tried and tested hit songs turn the other cheek!
TAPES
Singer/songwriter Jukka Salminen picks the nylon strings of an acoustic
guitar and sings softly. The sound is warm and the pleasant atmosphere reminds
one of the childhood summers. Tapes has the hand in the same honeypot as Jose
Gonzales and a great many other tender troubadours.
What separates Tapes from the others, though, is that one, his songs are great and the melodies are catchy, and two, Tapes doesn't sound like a whining namby-pamby. Even if the tunes are sensitive, Tapes' vigorous measures are a far cry from the sentimental artsy-fartsy versifying so often heard in the proximity of acoustic guitars. In other words: Tapes rocks, in its own fragile and touching way. Welcome to calm down in a soft-voiced rock'n'roll party.
www.musaa.org/tapesSaturday 15th July
DIGITAALIMIEHET
Two keyboardists and a vocalist/guitarist. Everyone plays with one finger
only. All instruments are cheap. The nasal singing voice recites austere
stories from the history of popular music.
Digitaalimiehet set consists exclusively of Class A song material: there are new versions of songs originally made famous by such names as Ricky Nelson, Johnny Cash and Misfits, but also completely new tunes by Digitaalimiehet themselves, and the former cannot put the latter to shame at all.
The Digitaalimiehet success formula is simple: the best songs by the best artists, the best covers, and the best sounds. Come on people, this is rock'n'roll, you know!
BENWAY
T-mu Korpipää and Arttu Tolonen have had their irons in several fires in the Finnish music scene. Korpipää has worked with such bands as Jolly Jumpers, Circle and Don Johnson Big Band, while Tolonen has played various instruments with Giant Robot, Black Audio and Fat Beat Sound System, to name but a few.
Their output together is difficult art rock that's surprisingly easy to approach. The guitar plays pretty country melodies while dark floods of sound pour out of the synthesizers: it's almost like a spaghetti western soundtrack in the middle of a tank attack. The light summer night and the welcoming atmosphere of Kerubin Kuppila is a perfect setting for Benway's cold, smooth grinding. Steady now, said the granny and took the cows to the slaughterhouse.
ANSSI KASITONNI ja kovat piipussa
Anssi Kasitonni is, by now, virtually a house band in Club Kasettiasema, and he is here again, celebrating his two (yes, two!) brand new records by playing a sturdy set of his old and new songs. Kasitonni is also rather a well-known independent film director and sculptor, but musically his means of expression is the ever-astounding man and the guitar and the drums that can be played by feet only. The snare and the bass drum boom with hair-raising speed, the guitar growls and Kasitonni himself sings like young Glenn Danzig.
Sounds like hilarious mayhem, but the songs are often moving, even sad too. The one-man band is like the bastard child between White Stripes, Nirvana, Cramps and Finnish protest singers. Sometimes Kasitonni assumes the relaxed stance of an old blues man, telling a confusing story about the incident at the smalltown youth centre, then he relates the experiences of doing up a moped, before diving headlong into a raw rock piece about the fight of a Christian. And how does it all sound together? Great, of course! Go Anssi go!
Sunday 16th July
YOU & ME
Asko Keränen is a busy man on the Sunday night. He has to be at the End of
Festival club in time to play with his other band 22 Pistepirkko, but first he
throws himself into the fire as the percussionist of the duo You & Me,
where the other half is the guitarist Marjatta Oja. Both of them sing. The
songs consist of dark beats and mellow synthetic soundscapes combined with
fragile guitars and human vocals, and the atmosphere varies from soothing to
ominous in an instant, bringing to mind the song material of Suicide, Massive
Attack or Björk.
The duo is apparently having a good time together, and their gigs are always full of surprises, so no one can yet say what the mood at Club Kasettiasema will be like. We'll see whether this time it's big beats and low bass frequencies or tender duo vocals. Probably there will be both, and a damn good load of all other things great and splendid as well.
THE MICRAGIRLS
The organ screams! The guitar growls! The drums clatter! The singing voice is
loud and shrill! It must be The Micragirls, the true cherishers of the
honourable tradition of lo-fi rock'n'roll, the distant relatives of such
Japanese girl groups as 5, 6, 7, 8 but making their stance with a determined
Eastern Finnish twist.
With their feet to the floor The Micragirls rush straight towards the killer loop, laughing mockingly at the face of destruction! The flabbergasted audience can't help but jump along to this high-speed caravan of love and follow the little red cars to the unknown! The smell of petroleum is in the air, the rubber burns, the exhaust pipes are on fire, and the tiny tape recorder acting as a car stereo fills the air with such clamour that the listeners feel the skin of their teeth curl! At the Club Kasettiasema, on Sunday!
LAURILA
Janne Laurila, the ex-frontman of Office Building, presently frontmans the
rock band called Laurila. He is backed by gentlemen that often play together as
the live line-up of Tigerbombs. From the first notes of the first song, the name
of the game is evident: it's world class pop rock with raw attitude and tight
ensemble playing.
Even if Janne Laurila's curriculum vitae is already full of evidence of how finely tuned his song-writing pen is, those who need more guarantee of his talents can take hold of the band's self-titled debut EP. His strong, handsome singing voice is still there, but there is more than just a bit more rock'n'roll in the songs, and the band plays together like something that really plays together well. Laurila's rock'n'roll show is the perfect ending for your Ilosaarirock experience. We'll meet you there, then! At Club Kasettiasema, Kerubin Kuppila!
Niskakatu 16, Joensuu
tel. +358 13 129 377
www.kerubi.fi
Club Kasettiasema – Program
Friday 14th July
Ville Härkönen plays Jaakko Teppo
Syntetisaattori Alanko
Tapes
Saturday 15th July
Digitaalimiehet
Benway
Anssi Kasitonni ja kovat piipussa
Sunday 16th July
You & Me
The Micragirls
Laurila